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Don't Delete Photos, Without Knowing About The Pain

One of the painful experiences, with Blogger blogs, involves people who make blogs based on photo albums.

Photos are, historically, a cherished souvenir of lifes passages - even in this modern age where a dozen photos might be taken, as opposed to one or two, 20 to 30 years ago. Sometimes, the souvenirs, part of a Blogger blog, are lost.

Even if deleted photos can be restored, a blog may have to be rebuilt - one photo at a time. When restored, photos frequently have a different URL - and the code in the blog post must be updated, to reflect the new URL. For many blog owners, it is simpler to just upload each photo again.
There are several reasons why a photo might be deleted, and cause problems.

Blog owners, seeing personal photos in a public library, may delete or make some private, without understanding the consequences.

Deleting photos from your other computer.

If your other computer aka smartphone is also a camera, you may be tempted to delete photos, once uploaded to Google, to save space. If you are using synschronised photo libraries, when you delete photos from the camera, the photos in Google will also be deleted.

Photos published in your blog, deleted from Google, will also vanish from the blog.

Someone who uses HTML mode to maintain the blog may decide to edit each post and correct the URL of each restored photo. Most blog owners though will find it simpler to just upload every photo, using "Insert image", again. This will cause duplication and wasted library space.

The bottom line.

If photos are an important part of your blog, and your account or blog is deleted, be prepared for inconvenience. Avoid deleting accounts or blogs which contain cherished photos, in general.

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